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Michael Evangelista
 
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Default Can't edit editable region! - 11-16-2005 , 11:36 PM






Aargh.
DW8 is giving me the fits.

I am familiar with templates, editable regions, etc... I have a site with
30+ pages, all content for each page is in the same editable region... but
on this one page, I am unable to make any changes

http://erakanab.com/buyer_info.html

Obviously it was working, cause I built this whole form... but now I am
trying to insert some javascript and I get that stupid "You have made
changes to code that is not marked as editable..." warning!

I got around it a few times by exiting and restarting DW - but then, after
one or two changes, I get the error again. AND if I choose "yes", it still
discards the changes.

What gives? Is this page somehow corrupt? What is the recommended way out of
this endless error loop?

--
Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions





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Murray *TMM*
 
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Default Re: Can't edit editable region! - 11-17-2005 , 06:02 AM






The page has an HTML4.01 doctype but XHTML markup.

It has content below </head> and above <body> (ew).

It is missing the P7 js functions.

And so on. Fix those things and try again....

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"Michael Evangelista" <contact_me_online_ (AT) evangelista-web (DOT) com> wrote in
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Quote:
Aargh.
DW8 is giving me the fits.

I am familiar with templates, editable regions, etc... I have a site with
30+ pages, all content for each page is in the same editable region... but
on this one page, I am unable to make any changes

http://erakanab.com/buyer_info.html

Obviously it was working, cause I built this whole form... but now I am
trying to insert some javascript and I get that stupid "You have made
changes to code that is not marked as editable..." warning!

I got around it a few times by exiting and restarting DW - but then, after
one or two changes, I get the error again. AND if I choose "yes", it still
discards the changes.

What gives? Is this page somehow corrupt? What is the recommended way out
of this endless error loop?

--
Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions







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Michael Evangelista
 
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Default Re: Can't edit editable region! - 11-17-2005 , 07:49 AM



Hmm.... what have I done now?
thanks, Murray!

--
Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions



"Murray *TMM*" <forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:
The page has an HTML4.01 doctype but XHTML markup.

It has content below </head> and above <body> (ew).

It is missing the P7 js functions.

And so on. Fix those things and try again....

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com - Template Triage!
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ - Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================


"Michael Evangelista" <contact_me_online_ (AT) evangelista-web (DOT) com> wrote in
message news:dlh537$b08$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Aargh.
DW8 is giving me the fits.

I am familiar with templates, editable regions, etc... I have a site with
30+ pages, all content for each page is in the same editable region...
but on this one page, I am unable to make any changes

http://erakanab.com/buyer_info.html

Obviously it was working, cause I built this whole form... but now I am
trying to insert some javascript and I get that stupid "You have made
changes to code that is not marked as editable..." warning!

I got around it a few times by exiting and restarting DW - but then,
after one or two changes, I get the error again. AND if I choose "yes",
it still discards the changes.

What gives? Is this page somehow corrupt? What is the recommended way out
of this endless error loop?

--
Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions









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Murray *TMM*
 
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Default Re: Can't edit editable region! - 11-17-2005 , 08:17 AM



Post back if this helps.

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"Michael Evangelista" <contact_me_online_ (AT) evangelista-web (DOT) com> wrote in
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Quote:
Hmm.... what have I done now?
thanks, Murray!

--
Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions



"Murray *TMM*" <forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote in message
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The page has an HTML4.01 doctype but XHTML markup.

It has content below </head> and above <body> (ew).

It is missing the P7 js functions.

And so on. Fix those things and try again....

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com - Template Triage!
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ - Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================


"Michael Evangelista" <contact_me_online_ (AT) evangelista-web (DOT) com> wrote in
message news:dlh537$b08$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Aargh.
DW8 is giving me the fits.

I am familiar with templates, editable regions, etc... I have a site
with 30+ pages, all content for each page is in the same editable
region... but on this one page, I am unable to make any changes

http://erakanab.com/buyer_info.html

Obviously it was working, cause I built this whole form... but now I am
trying to insert some javascript and I get that stupid "You have made
changes to code that is not marked as editable..." warning!

I got around it a few times by exiting and restarting DW - but then,
after one or two changes, I get the error again. AND if I choose "yes",
it still discards the changes.

What gives? Is this page somehow corrupt? What is the recommended way
out of this endless error loop?

--
Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions











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Michael Evangelista
 
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Default Re: Can't edit editable region! - 11-17-2005 , 11:25 AM



Ya know... that code (the jscript) aint where I put it... and those default
styles were inserted entirely by DW.

--- is there some way to turn that off? I almost never use any on-page
DW-created styles - but sometimes DW writes a style like that when I am just
'looking' at how something would appear.
I would much rather these styles get auto-written inline, rather than in
the head of the page.

anyway... it IS my fault of course.
somehow on my template - from which all of these pages are spawned - the
</head> tag migrated north...which placed it above various things at the
previous end of the head section... down boy!

As for the doctype, y'know Murray I am still a recovering NOF-user... is
there a simple rule to use for Doctypes on all my new pages?

thanks again

--
Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions



"Murray *TMM*" <forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:
Post back if this helps.

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com - Template Triage!
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ - Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================


"Michael Evangelista" <contact_me_online_ (AT) evangelista-web (DOT) com> wrote in
message news:dli296$nbj$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Hmm.... what have I done now?
thanks, Murray!

--
Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions



"Murray *TMM*" <forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:dlhrgl$d7h$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
The page has an HTML4.01 doctype but XHTML markup.

It has content below </head> and above <body> (ew).

It is missing the P7 js functions.

And so on. Fix those things and try again....

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com - Template Triage!
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ - Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================


"Michael Evangelista" <contact_me_online_ (AT) evangelista-web (DOT) com> wrote in
message news:dlh537$b08$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Aargh.
DW8 is giving me the fits.

I am familiar with templates, editable regions, etc... I have a site
with 30+ pages, all content for each page is in the same editable
region... but on this one page, I am unable to make any changes

http://erakanab.com/buyer_info.html

Obviously it was working, cause I built this whole form... but now I am
trying to insert some javascript and I get that stupid "You have made
changes to code that is not marked as editable..." warning!

I got around it a few times by exiting and restarting DW - but then,
after one or two changes, I get the error again. AND if I choose "yes",
it still discards the changes.

What gives? Is this page somehow corrupt? What is the recommended way
out of this endless error loop?

--
Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions













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Murray *TMM*
 
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Default Re: Can't edit editable region! - 11-17-2005 , 12:02 PM



Quote:
As for the doctype, y'know Murray I am still a recovering NOF-user... is
there a simple rule to use for Doctypes on all my new pages?
Just go with what DW8 gives you. But don't mix XHTML with HTML.

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
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(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com - Template Triage!
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ - Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================


"Michael Evangelista" <contact_me_online_ (AT) evangelista-web (DOT) com> wrote in
message news:dliem3$dn3$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Quote:
Ya know... that code (the jscript) aint where I put it... and those
default styles were inserted entirely by DW.

--- is there some way to turn that off? I almost never use any on-page
DW-created styles - but sometimes DW writes a style like that when I am
just 'looking' at how something would appear.
I would much rather these styles get auto-written inline, rather than
in the head of the page.

anyway... it IS my fault of course.
somehow on my template - from which all of these pages are spawned - the
/head> tag migrated north...which placed it above various things at the
previous end of the head section... down boy!

As for the doctype, y'know Murray I am still a recovering NOF-user... is
there a simple rule to use for Doctypes on all my new pages?

thanks again

--
Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions



"Murray *TMM*" <forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote in message
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Post back if this helps.

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com - Template Triage!
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ - Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================


"Michael Evangelista" <contact_me_online_ (AT) evangelista-web (DOT) com> wrote in
message news:dli296$nbj$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Hmm.... what have I done now?
thanks, Murray!

--
Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions



"Murray *TMM*" <forums (AT) HAHAgreat-web-sights (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:dlhrgl$d7h$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
The page has an HTML4.01 doctype but XHTML markup.

It has content below </head> and above <body> (ew).

It is missing the P7 js functions.

And so on. Fix those things and try again....

--
Murray --- ICQ 71997575
Team Macromedia Volunteer for Dreamweaver
(If you *MUST* email me, don't LAUGH when you do so!)
==================
http://www.dreamweavermx-templates.com - Template Triage!
http://www.projectseven.com/go - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.dwfaq.com - DW FAQs, Tutorials & Resources
http://www.macromedia.com/support/search/ - Macromedia (MM) Technotes
==================


"Michael Evangelista" <contact_me_online_ (AT) evangelista-web (DOT) com> wrote in
message news:dlh537$b08$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com...
Aargh.
DW8 is giving me the fits.

I am familiar with templates, editable regions, etc... I have a site
with 30+ pages, all content for each page is in the same editable
region... but on this one page, I am unable to make any changes

http://erakanab.com/buyer_info.html

Obviously it was working, cause I built this whole form... but now I
am trying to insert some javascript and I get that stupid "You have
made changes to code that is not marked as editable..." warning!

I got around it a few times by exiting and restarting DW - but then,
after one or two changes, I get the error again. AND if I choose
"yes", it still discards the changes.

What gives? Is this page somehow corrupt? What is the recommended way
out of this endless error loop?

--
Michael Evangelista
Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions















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Donna Casey
 
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Default Re: Can't edit editable region! - 11-17-2005 , 01:52 PM



Michael Evangelista wrote:
Quote:
Ya know... that code (the jscript) aint where I put it... and those default
styles were inserted entirely by DW.

--- is there some way to turn that off? I almost never use any on-page
DW-created styles - but sometimes DW writes a style like that when I am just
'looking' at how something would appear.
turn off the "use css instead of html" option in your general category
preferences.

as for writing inline, do you mean fonts? That is what will happen if
you turn off the option above, but css is a better solution. However, if
you plan to use css, it is better to do it with fore-knowledge of how it
works and then build the styles you need and apply them instead of
letting DW make and apply "classitis" rules as it pleases.

Just an opinion.

Donna


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Murray *TMM*
 
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Default Re: Can't edit editable region! - 11-17-2005 , 02:00 PM



Quote:
Just an opinion.

Donna
One I happen to agree with, too. I never style text elements with the
Property inspector, other than <b>/<strong> or <i>/<em>. I do use the style
dropdown to select the proper class, but that's about it.

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==================


"Donna Casey" <infoREMOVETHIS (AT) n2dreamweaver (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:
Michael Evangelista wrote:
Ya know... that code (the jscript) aint where I put it... and those
default styles were inserted entirely by DW.

--- is there some way to turn that off? I almost never use any on-page
DW-created styles - but sometimes DW writes a style like that when I am
just 'looking' at how something would appear.

turn off the "use css instead of html" option in your general category
preferences.

as for writing inline, do you mean fonts? That is what will happen if you
turn off the option above, but css is a better solution. However, if you
plan to use css, it is better to do it with fore-knowledge of how it works
and then build the styles you need and apply them instead of letting DW
make and apply "classitis" rules as it pleases.

Just an opinion.

Donna



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Michael Evangelista
 
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Default Re: Can't edit editable region! - 11-18-2005 , 05:53 PM



Quote:
as for writing inline, do you mean fonts? That is what will happen if you
turn off the option above, but css is a better solution.
I agree... ALL of my text styling is done in an external sheet... but
sometimes I inadvertently get those .style1 classes insterted automatically
in the head of the page, and never notice (still learning the DW interface)

I was just thinking if I could make DW write the styling right in the html,
I would be more likely to see it and remove it.

thanks for the feedback..


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Evangelista Design / Evangelista Consulting, inc.
www.evangelista-web.com
Custom Small Business Website Solutions



"Donna Casey" <infoREMOVETHIS (AT) n2dreamweaver (DOT) com> wrote

Quote:
Michael Evangelista wrote:
Ya know... that code (the jscript) aint where I put it... and those
default styles were inserted entirely by DW.

--- is there some way to turn that off? I almost never use any on-page
DW-created styles - but sometimes DW writes a style like that when I am
just 'looking' at how something would appear.

turn off the "use css instead of html" option in your general category
preferences.

as for writing inline, do you mean fonts? That is what will happen if you
turn off the option above, but css is a better solution. However, if you
plan to use css, it is better to do it with fore-knowledge of how it works
and then build the styles you need and apply them instead of letting DW
make and apply "classitis" rules as it pleases.

Just an opinion.

Donna



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